Raphitoma perpulchra

Raphitoma perpulchra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Raphitoma
Species:
R. perpulchra
Binomial name
Raphitoma perpulchra
(S.V. Wood, 1848 )
Synonyms

Clavatula perpulchra S.V. Wood, 1848

Raphitoma perpulchra is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell reaches 10 mm.

(Original description) "The small shell is turriculate and fusiform. It has an elevated spire and convex whorls. The whorls are longitudinally costated with 11 - 12 ribs on the body whorl. It is transversely striated with sharp and elevated striae. The outer lip is curved and thickened on the outside. It has a large and deep sinus at the suture. The siphonal canal is short and very open."[2]

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in Pliocene strata in Belgium and the Crag Formation, Sutton, England.

References

  1. ^ Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitoma perpulchra
  2. ^ Wood, Searles Valentine. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca: With Descriptipns of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. No. 1. Johnson, 1848